Thunder Followers Celebrated Paul George With A ‘Playoff P’ Billboard In Oklahoma Metropolis

Usually, you may’t give your self a nickname. That’s, after all, until you’re Nick Younger, aka Swaggy P (aka The Splash Brother Who Did A Bit In San Quentin). He’s the exception slightly than the rule. If we let everybody do it, we’d be out right here calling Kevin Durant “The Servant.” Which, yuck.

However typically, within the warmth of the second, you strike gold. As an illustration, after an enormous playoff efficiency with the Portland Trailblazers just a few years again, a reporter informed Will Barton that he was trending on Twitter, to which he responded by shrugging and uttering the phrase that might grow to be his nickname from that day forth: “Folks’s Champ.”

One thing comparable occurred with Paul George on Sunday evening after he dropped 36 factors, together with eight three-pointers, to steer the Thunder to a Recreation 1 victory over the Utah Jazz. Talking to the media after the sport, he reminded reporters that his alter ego “Playoff P” has been round for a while (even when it caught his star teammates off guard), and it didn’t take lengthy for followers in OKC to immortalize that new self-appointed nom de guerre on an area billboard (as a result of that’s apparently nonetheless a factor).

For these of you not within the OKC space… right here is without doubt one of the #PlayoffP billboards we’re at present working. #ThunderOnPG #ooh pic.twitter.com/TnjYQwgUE7

— Lamar Oklahoma Metropolis (@LamarOKC) April 17, 2018

Within the yr 2018, there’s actually no logical rationalization for the resurgence of the billboard, that the majority anachronistic of selling instruments, so it’s no use making an attempt to know it.

Town of Philadelphia first resurrected it in hopes of luring LeBron to city in free company, and a number of other different cities – Los Angeles, Portland, and a few place in New Zealand – rapidly adopted swimsuit.

“Playoff P” was an instantaneous hit, each in title and efficiency, and the Thunder and their followers are hoping to see extra of him when Recreation 2 suggestions off again in OKC on Wednesday evening.